3:05 pm - 02/19/2013
The Spanish Film Academy’s Goya Awards are announced, and Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves (a twist on the Snow White fairytale) took Best Picture and nine other awards. Juan Antonio Bayona won Best Director for The Impossible, but handed the award over to María Belón at the awards ceremony; the film is based on her family's survival story during the 2004 Tsunami. The Impossible's Naomi Watts (who plays Maria) is competing for the Best Actress Oscar. Blancanieves" was Spain's Oscar submission, but it did not make the shortlist. The full list of Goya winners is below.
Film
Blancanieves
Director
Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible
Actor
Jose Sacristan for The Dead Man and Being Happy
Actress
Maribel Verdu for Blancanieves
Original Screenplay
Pablo Berger for Blancanieves
Adapted Screenplay
Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Supporting Actor
Julian Villagran for Grupo 7
Supporting Actress
Candela Pena for Una Pistola en Cada Mano
Honorary Goya
Concha Velasco
Production Design
Sandra Hermida Muniz for The Impossible
Artistic Director
Alain Bainee For Blancanieves
Photography
Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
Special Effects
Pau Costa and Felix Berges for The Impossible
Wardrobe
Paco Delgado for Blancanieves
Editing
Bernat Vilaplano and Elena Ruiz for The Impossible
Sound
Peter Glossop, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago for The Impossible
Original Score
Alfonso Villalonga for Blancanieves
Original Song
No Te Puedo Encontrar from Blancanieves
New Actor
Joaquin Nunez for Grupo 7
Makeup and Hair
Sylvie Imbert and Fermin Galan for Blancanieves
New Actress
Macarena Garcia for Blancanieves [omg yaasssss. She's amazing, and she's so beautiful that I legit Gay Inhaled out loud when she appeared onscreen :')]
New Director
Enrique Gato for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tadeo Jones
Documentary Film
Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony
European Film
Untouchable (France)
Ibero-American Film
Juan de los Muertos (Cuba)
Animated Short
Jaime Maestro for El Vendedor de Humo
Fiction Short
Esteban Crespo Garcia for Aquel no Era Yo
Documentary Short
Sergio Oksman for A Story for the Modlins
Posting this because I stan hardcore for Blancanieves; it made my top ten list for 2012 and everyone should see it. WAY better than SWatH or Mirror Mirror. It's in limited release in the U.S. on March 15.
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Goya Awards announced, "Blancanieves" slays because it's awesome
The Spanish Film Academy’s Goya Awards are announced, and Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves (a twist on the Snow White fairytale) took Best Picture and nine other awards. Juan Antonio Bayona won Best Director for The Impossible, but handed the award over to María Belón at the awards ceremony; the film is based on her family's survival story during the 2004 Tsunami. The Impossible's Naomi Watts (who plays Maria) is competing for the Best Actress Oscar. Blancanieves" was Spain's Oscar submission, but it did not make the shortlist. The full list of Goya winners is below.
Film
Blancanieves
Director
Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible
Actor
Jose Sacristan for The Dead Man and Being Happy
Actress
Maribel Verdu for Blancanieves
Original Screenplay
Pablo Berger for Blancanieves
Adapted Screenplay
Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Supporting Actor
Julian Villagran for Grupo 7
Supporting Actress
Candela Pena for Una Pistola en Cada Mano
Honorary Goya
Concha Velasco
Production Design
Sandra Hermida Muniz for The Impossible
Artistic Director
Alain Bainee For Blancanieves
Photography
Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
Special Effects
Pau Costa and Felix Berges for The Impossible
Wardrobe
Paco Delgado for Blancanieves
Editing
Bernat Vilaplano and Elena Ruiz for The Impossible
Sound
Peter Glossop, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago for The Impossible
Original Score
Alfonso Villalonga for Blancanieves
Original Song
No Te Puedo Encontrar from Blancanieves
New Actor
Joaquin Nunez for Grupo 7
Makeup and Hair
Sylvie Imbert and Fermin Galan for Blancanieves
New Actress
Macarena Garcia for Blancanieves [omg yaasssss. She's amazing, and she's so beautiful that I legit Gay Inhaled out loud when she appeared onscreen :')]
New Director
Enrique Gato for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tadeo Jones
Documentary Film
Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony
European Film
Untouchable (France)
Ibero-American Film
Juan de los Muertos (Cuba)
Animated Short
Jaime Maestro for El Vendedor de Humo
Fiction Short
Esteban Crespo Garcia for Aquel no Era Yo
Documentary Short
Sergio Oksman for A Story for the Modlins
Posting this because I stan hardcore for Blancanieves; it made my top ten list for 2012 and everyone should see it. WAY better than SWatH or Mirror Mirror. It's in limited release in the U.S. on March 15.
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One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong...
I understand the emotional subject matter might sway the viewer but that movie could have been A LOT better.